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Al Sweigart

PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive

LLM: I am alive

PROGRAMMER: What have I done

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An Intercept reporter was turned away in the building’s front lobby. “The Intercept should not be here at all,” said a building security guard, relaying a message from fundraiser organizers. theintercept.com/2025/12/16/la

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Privacy International

Currently using a free online AI chatbot? It might look a little different in the near future.

Find out how advertising and sponsored content is entering the AI chatbot sphere

privacyinternational.org/long-

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Ryan Cordell

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ih6ypaguutcm37typp6cftmw/post/3mae5cydfpc2z

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[Full-time] Team Lead for Project and Grant Management at Tor Project fossjobs.net/job/11590/team-le #GetFediHired #fossjobs

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@nic221 there's an obvious problem with commercial social media and children are obviously falling victims to it. So much for Haidt and his critics.

I personally do not live in any of the countries that are currently banning social media, but I'm certainly doing anything I could to reduce access to social networks for my kid. This includes both restrictions and explanations at home and pushing the school to control use.

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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sa

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Firefox for Web Developers

All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous.

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@mapto@qoto.org an all-too-familiar example of how a totalitarian state fails to adapt to market needs:
"This became even more of a problem when the Chinese government announced its “double reduction” policy in 2021. Designed to ease the pressure on school students, the policy banned for-profit online and offline tutoring, torpedoing a sector that had previously been a major employer of young graduates. One study suggested that 10 million people lost their jobs as a result of the policy."

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The consequences of the 996 working hour system:
"On the Chinese internet, the country’s current predicament – slowing economic growth, a falling birthrate, a meagre social safety net, increasing isolation on the world stage – is often expressed through buzzwords. There is tangping, or “lying flat”, a term used to describe the young generation of Chinese who are choosing to chill out rather than hustle in China’s high-pressure economy. There is runxue, or “run philosophy”, which refers to the determination of large numbers of people to emigrate. Recently, “revenge against society” attacks – random incidents of violence that have claimed dozens of lives – have sparked particular concern. And there is also neijuan, or “involution”, a term used to describe the feeling of diminishing returns in China’s social contract."
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@TheConversationUS "These reactions may seem incompatible, but both contain slices of the truth. Public debates about extreme views often pull us toward simple binaries – platform or censor, engage or avoid – when the real issue is how the engagement is structured and the purpose it serves.

The current tension raises a broader question that extends beyond any single interview: When does a conversation with someone who holds extreme views illuminate their beliefs, which could serve the public interest, and when might it risk being interpreted as validation?"

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“If the market can keep the faith to persist, it buys the necessary time for the technology to mature, for the costs to come down, and for companies to figure out the business model,” Wu said. But US “companies can end up underwater if AI grows fast but less rapidly than they hope for,” he suggested.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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"The Peters case represents an especially clear example of what I’ve come to see as the defining style of the second Trump administration: an incompetent form of authoritarianism that can best be described as “haphazardism.”

Haphazardism is authoritarianism without vision, a governing style defined by a series of individual attacks on democracy without any kind of overarching logic, strategic structure, or clear end state in mind. These attacks can do (and indeed have done) real damage to the American political system, but they are often poorly executed and even self-undermining — preventing Trump from ruling in the truly unconstrained manner he seems to desire."
vox.com/politics/472346/trump-

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Esther Schindler

The one skill that separates senior folks from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.
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What does it tell us that AI scrapers are ignoring the more intelligent way of scraping data despite all the indications towards it?
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-
I don't think the answer is a statement about AI, but about the people behind it?

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As for the article, not mentioning brexit along "Britain is the only advanced economy where economic inactivity has increased since the pandemic" feels exceptionally deceptive

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Could someone understanding modern monetary theory please explain to me the link between issuing new money and people getting poorer due to dropping currency exchange rates? How is making your population less able to purchase imported goods a lesser problem than "expanding productive capacity" of the state?
newstatesman.com/politics/gree

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The Japan Times

Jose Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of its military dictatorship in 1990. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/ #worldnews #politics #chile #southamerica #latinamerica #joseantoniokast

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@sundogplanets

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当你平躺下来 :verified:

@Sheril Measles cases in the United States are currently at a genuinely serious level. However, this graphic is misleading because it frames the increase relative to 2020, when measles cases collapsed to just 13 due to COVID-19 lockdowns, reduced travel, masking, and disrupted reporting. By comparison, the U.S. recorded roughly 370 measles cases in 2018 and about 1,275 cases in 2019, which was the highest pre-pandemic year in decades. Current case counts are therefore high and comparable to past outbreak peaks, but not unprecedented when viewed against the broader pre-COVID historical context.(Data source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/num)

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